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Dierks Bentley Pays Tribute To Musical Icon · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  It's so weird because we haven't talked to this guy in a while, and
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  we're not even talking to him about him. Really this time around, Derks
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  Bentley is here. How are you, man? I'm great. How are
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  you doing, dude? Not bad at all. I got to ask you.
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  We're just kind of talking a little bit about, uh, the NHL.
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  You're obviously a big NHL guy, hopefully a big Preds guy. Anything
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  else, absolutely, why listen, I'll take the last time we saw each
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  other was at the game. I think, uh who it was a Chicago
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  game. I think I saw you there. It was probably the last game
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  we won. Yeah, it's been a minute. I know we're after great
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  there and the energy there is great. The team has great passion, just
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  you know, being being a guy who is very involved hockey wise. I
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  mean your son, right, you're in the ring to practice this morning.
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  The morning? Yeah him. When when the NHL had the All Star Game
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  here, I still see footage of Dirk's Bentley out there. What's it like
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  to put yourself out there that way? I mean, yeah, well that
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  lives forever. That was one of the scariest moments. James Neil hit me
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  up to come out there and do a little you know, two on one
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  breakaway thing or two on zero. And I mean I almost missed jump in
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  the ice and almost fell down and wearing like jeans and skates, which is
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  kind of weird, and uh, thank god I got the got the goal.
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  I think it's the last goal of scored. Uh but no, it's
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  it's it's so fun. I mean, I love we had the Winter Classic
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  here. Nashville is just a hard town for anybody else to compete with.
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  I mean, I loved watching Toronto. Would love to have been up there
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  this year for the All Star Break, But man, Nashville just has it
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  all here, you know, just there's so many artists that live here,
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  and everyone loves hockey here and the Lower Broadways right next to the arena,
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  it's it's a special place for for when the teams come here, they all
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  talk about how much they love playing here. So I'm biased. I think
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  nashal is the best place to put the They just have it here every year.
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  So we I want to talk about this project because it's such a unique
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  project. Yeah, and I'll get to that in a second. But you
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  bring up Lower Broadway. Obviously you were one of the first names up there,
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  right as far as when you open your bar, Yeah, at what
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  point were you're like, yeah, this is the way I'm going, Like,
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  how does that? How does that happen for an artist? Well,
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  I remember I've had this Barkle whiskey row. I had one in Arizona's.
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  It was pretty It's pretty wild. The what the waitresses are wearing and what
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  goes on inside it's pretty it's pretty crazy. And I remember my manager saying,
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  Hey, we should do one in Nashville, and I was like,
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  Nashville's not can handle this. This is like a Scotts Still Arizona like pretty
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  wild scene. And but she was right. I mean, National has changed
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  so much in the last you know, ten years, seven years, It's
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  gone. Downtown's gone from being kind of the hockey talks to being Bacheler Central
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  and it's pretty wild scene. And so when that opportunity came to buy that
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  building with the old building that is uh the growing guitar shop. So that's
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  where I used to go look for guitars and stuff that I couldn't afford,
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  but we'll go put them off the wall and play them a little bit.
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  So just the couldn't Aford the guitar. So you're about the building. It's
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  been I mean, I am buying the building. It might be a song
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  there somewhere, but then again buy the building. And so just it's a
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  lot of pride and that that location. And uh, it's still I think
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  one of the best bars down there. It's it's it's just has a great
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  energy to it. It's not I mean I think people go down there.
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  Eric's building a bar and Garth just put his thing up, and everyone spends
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  so much time thinking about detail, you know, how to make their bar
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  unique. When people are just coming here and look for Cold Core's light and
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  they don't care. What do are they going to like this one? Here's
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  some country music and a good drink of beer. But we put a lot
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  of time into it and it feels good. It's a great location, and
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  I love the Whiskey Jam is down there now and Ward Gunther is down there
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  doing the Whiskey Jam. So it's there's some original music on Lower Broadway.
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  It's one of the few places doing that. It came out this past week.
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  Jason ld And just opened a third location. Right. Uh, it's
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  it's in Pittsburgh. It's obviously here and where else is the other one?
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  Gallinburg? Cool? Yeah, everyone's going to Gallinburg. Yeah. How how
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  hands are you? How how hands on are you in the growth and like,
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  yeah, we we just try to We have one in Denver, Phoenix,
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  here, We looked at Las Vegas, Chicago. We looked around a
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  little bit. But I'm not trying to like to me, it's just like
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  quality control and find the right places to do. I don't want to blow
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  it up like Toby Kese. Uh. You know, I love this bar
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  that was everywhere and it kind of ends up being a little I'm kind of
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  you know, I'm hands on in like discussions about it, but I'm not
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  actually out there trying to find locations and stuff. So I get you.
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  Yeah, Now let's transition because I want to talk about what you got playing
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  the rest of the year. Obviously you're getting back on the road in a
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  little while here. When I got a phone call about this project last week,
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  I was like, at first, I go what and wow, because
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  that's kind of my That was my reaction too. It's a concept, it's
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  it's essentially a Tom Petty tribute album. Yeah, it's called Petty Country.
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  Yeah, it's coming out in May. Yeah, obviously Tom Petty, you
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  think folk music, but I also don't like put him in I don't put
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  him in country. I don't put him in folky, I don't put him
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  in rock. Yeah, he kind of defines all these genes. And you're
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  talking about Lower Broadway. I mean, Tom Petty's one those guys whose music
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  you would hear down Lower Broadway. He's one of those those when people come
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  here, they want to hear the country, but they like hearing some covers
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  and the song I Gotta do in this album American Girls. When I've been
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  here the country singers, you know, cover for a long time. And
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  he's also yeah, bluegrass, you know, the dumb A Curry Band,
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  one of my favorite blue grass bands cut a song is called Long Long Road,
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  Love is a Love is a Long Long Road, and they did a
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  bluegrass version of it. Marty Stewart cut a running Down a Dream. So
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  he's his his the country music, not just the singers, also the audience,
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  but certainly the singers. Artists in this town have always long admired Tom
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  Petty, and he's the guy that the artists admired. He has the critical
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  CREWD but he also has someone's down Lord Broadway drinking a beer, you know,
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  play play American Girl, So he kind of has he covers it pretty
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  well, and I know he's pretty outspoken on country music. He is.
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  He has opinions about you know, modern country music versus the traditional stuff.
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  He you know, he was part of HE and he's he, you know,
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  he's I think he inducted he's inducted somebody into the Hall of Fame,
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  the Country Music Hall of Fame. Well the god was it not Elvis?
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  But uh, Blue Sweat's Shoes, who's that? And that's anyway, Carl
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  Perkins. I think he inducted Carl Perkins into the Hall of Fame. So
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  he's he has a lot of respect for the traditional country music. But I'm
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  younger fans. I've been doing an American Girl on my show now for a
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  little bit, and uh, I mean people love that song. So like
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  you said, you're like wow, then like what then? Wow? Like
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  when I was asking part of this project, I was like, yes,
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  for sure, And then when I found out they wanted to make that song
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  a single, I was like what Because Dolly Parton's on this record and George
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  Strait's on this record and Chris Stapleton's on this record, so I was like,
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  you want you know, you're gonna go with our song for the single,
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  And then I was like yeah, wow, because uh, the song
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  did turn out really well. You know, we put a lot of time
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  in the track the musicians, and it feels like it feels like me singing
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  a Tom Petty song. And I was really happy with the way the vocal
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  worked out on the track. I sang in a few times to really try
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  to lean into the vocal like Tom does, and uh, and it's you
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  know, it's a win win for me because having this song and the live
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  show is a doesn't doesn't suck. It's a nice piece to have a tucked
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  into the set for sure. Did you get to pick the song where they
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  like, yeah, yeah, I couldn't believe that song was I got to
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  pick the song, and I want to you know a lot of times I'm
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  late in these things. And then like a song you get is still a
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  great song and not like one of the premier songs, but yeah, American
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  Girl was still I jumped on it when I heard about the opportunity. So
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  I got an American Girl and and worked out pretty good. We talked about
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  the bar obviously this project. You whether it's your management, you, your
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  team, whoever. I'd imagine there's a lot of requests for you to be
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  a part of a lot of stuff, especially with that way. It's some
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  of it with twenty two number one songs, Yeah, something like that.
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  So with with all you have done and what all you continue to do,
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  I'm sure those requests come in what made this one? That's yeah, yeah,
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  yeah, there's I mean thankful to get you know, there's sometimes you
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  to get the request I get there. Sometimes you can't do them all.
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  And I think it's just about having a really honest dialogue with the ones that
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  you know, an artist wants to do a song with you, and you're
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  like, I just know if that works for me, you know, just
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  being honest about it, and uh, or it works with the schedule and
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  the timing. Uh, this one is just it's Tom Petty and and uh,
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  you know, Big Machines put it out. And I've always had a
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  lot of respect for Scott Burshetta and and his team. Got a few folks
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  in here with us today from the team that's helping them launch this this song.
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  So you know, it's one of those things, you know, if
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  you're gonna put the time and to cut the track and bring the musicians and
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  make it a great track and put your heart into that and then go sing
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  it and and get this track right, you want to be you know,
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  you want to do it for something that feels like there's there's someone on the
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  other end promoting it there, you know, and putting their heart and soul
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  to it as well. So having a great team behind it's important. And
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  I'd be like an act. I think about actor, like, you know,
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  we're friends with Keith Urban, you know, he's a pal and Nicoles
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  of buddies of ours, and you think about looking at what I think of
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  her sometimes the movie she makes. You gonna make these movies and you pour
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  your life into them, and then they're not promoted that well or they're not
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  edited that well, and you're just like, oh my gosh. So that
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  happens sometimes. But this one, it's been like a great just everyone coming
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  together behind it and excited about it, and it's it's just been been a
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  really good, good one so far. So I'm really excited for the fans
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  to hear it. I think they'll hear it in the track. You know,
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  there's some banjo rolling along along with the big guitars too, and some
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  mandolin, and it's it's what I've always tried to do, which is to
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  mix that bluegrassy sound with the big arena kind of country rock sound. And
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  it feels like it captured it pretty well when it comes to where it falls
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  in. I mean, this is kind of like the first domino for you
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  for the whole year, right, Yeah, when are you back on the
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  road? When are you? Yeah? This has been a nice piece.
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  I'm writing songs right now. I'm going back in the studio March to cut
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  some more stuff. But uh, I mean, as like I said,
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  there's real blessings. I love the song so much and I love the way
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  it turned out. I love having my live show. So it's kind of
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  bought me some more time when it comes to my own stuff. So it's
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  again and it's a it's the gift that keeps on giving, but it just
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  gives me more time to work on my own stuff. But we're going back
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  out on the road in June. I got Chase Rice coming out in the
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  road with us. I have all these great openers, Lee Brice is coming
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  out. Randy Rogers band, who I love, part of that red dirt
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  scene. He and I've been buddies for a long time. Zach Tops coming
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  out. I was just writing songs with Stephen Wilson Junior. I don't know
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  if you're aware of who he is, but he is incredible and yeah,
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  so that's that. Tours gonna be amazing. Tickets are on sale now,
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  which is it's a nice thing, so buy some tickets. But yeah,
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  me, me and I neber too. Chase. Last time Chase and I
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  did a tour together was twenty fifteen and he was opening Opening Access. Is
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  the first time he let people like direct support and he's been a long time,
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  good buddy. We get mistaken for each other a lot, which could
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  be fun on the road. We'll see all that he can. If I'm
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  not feeling good, he can sub and do my show. No, but
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  he's just a great guy and it's gonna be a really fun summer. How
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  do the artists that you've brought with you along the way. Obviously it's somebody
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  maybe you believe in, somebody you're a fan of, or some buzz working
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  with them throughout your career and then obviously being a part of projects like this.
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  How does it change, you know when you first came around to the
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  Dirks Bentley we hear today? How has all of that the road, the
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  records or all of it? Yeah? Everything, I mean the road has
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  always been for me about two urning people that I like more than touring people
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  that can make money or sell tickets. I had a lot opportunities early in
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  the day to go out some bigger opening bands that weren't really the same kind
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  of music that I liked, and I chose to do two years of touring
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  with Cross Canadian Ragweed, a band that a lot of people listening probably haven't
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  heard of, but they're part of the Randy Rogers, Stoney l Rue,
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  Red Dirt scene, Wade Bowen and we played small bars and I lost a
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  few years of my life from drinking all the egger bombs that we did,
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  But uh, it was just I enjoyed. That was fun for me.
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  I'd rather do small bars with someone I love than go open for someone that
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  in a big arena that I wouldn't want to So that's always still been the
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  basis even now when I'm picking acts. Of course, you want to find
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  somebody that's successful, but really it's like who do you want to spend your
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  time with that summer. This last year had Jordan Davis without out with us,
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  and I've been a huge fan of his and uh so that was a
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  The timing worked out great too, because he's really taken off and this time
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  around have Chase Rice. He's just someone that's fun to be around, and
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  also he's hugely successful. So it's trying to find a good blend of that,
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  but more weight on just who you want to spend your time with.
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  That's gonna be fun. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. To her,
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  it'll be great. Plus you're to the point where he's crazy. He's lived,
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  he like has his dog, he travels with everywhere. I got him
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  on this gig. I have a sponsorship of Sessa of the airplane company,
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  and every year I go fish with them up in Canada. It's a great
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  gig. I go fish with their customers and stuff, and you helicopter into
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  these locations and the helicopter leads and you're just in the middle of this river
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  in these glacier mountains with you and the salmon and the eagles and the bears,
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  that's all. It's there and it's like wow. And so he came
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  on this thing and he brought his dog, and so his dog like choppered
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  in and landed and say he's got his fly rod and his dog with him.
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  And I hear he's like he's got his airstream. He's kind of like
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  ones. He's kind of traveling on his own out there on the road.
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  So it'll be fun to see how what he's been up to. But he's
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  always been someone that's been very into outdoor pursuits and adventure, and so I
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  think we'll think it'll be a fun summer. Last thing I want to ask
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  you is, as we wrap up, the big Game has happening this weekend.
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  I'm definitely an NHL guy. Yes, football, I like it's fine,
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  yeah, yeah, do you have a dog? You said a big
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  game? I was thinking hockey and like what no, uh yeah no.
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  I've watched more football this year than I ever have a lot of us because
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  I got a thirteen year old and fifteen year old and they love Taylor Swift,
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  so like they've made the cans. My daughter, my fictional has never
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  watched a lot of football before she goes I was saying, I was making
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  fun of her about being a Chiefs fan, and I go, You're not
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  a cheap She goes, Dad have always been a Chiefs fan. And then
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  literally thirty seconds later, Dad, are the Chiefs professional or college? But
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  it's been amazing. I know people are like bashing the whole, like Kelsey
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  Taylor thing. I've loved it because it's made football in my house a lot
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  more and I don't have to apologize for watching it. And I've watched every
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  playoff game this year. I mean, I was so sad when it wasn't
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  on, you know, recently the off weekend before the super Bowl. But
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  you know, I feel like that's the real Football's over. The super Bowl's
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  just a spectacle now, you know. I mean it's such a weird game.
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  The halftimes like twice as long, so the players come out kind of
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  the second half is weird. It's just but uh, you know, I
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  you know, I like, I was also really pulling for the lines too.
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  I left the forty nine ers and the Brock Pooty story, but I'm
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  man, I was pulling for the Lions so hard. I just we love
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  Michigan in all sports and the Lions with a story and Dan Campbell was a
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  great coach. But I grew up a Vikings fan, so I oh sorry,
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  yeah, yeah yeah. The Vikings have had some successful the years,
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  the Lions have not. But it'll be a good game. Now. I'm
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  just looking forward to watching the game and all the everything, you know,
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  the whole thing. I appreciate it, ud go see you, buddy,
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  appreciate it. You got it all right. Let's take a picture and get
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  you out of here.